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- Inability to urinate, retaining urine
- Acute illness because cat is unable to empty bladder completely
- Constipation
- Straining to defecate and urinate
- Urinary incontinence (has “accidents” before reaching its litter box)
- Lethargy
- Depression
- Abdominal pain
- Not interested in food, doesn’t eat
- Changes how it positions its tail
- An obvious lumpy swelling on one or both sides of the cat’s anus
- Bruising in the perineum
- Pain or discomfort
- Vomiting (this happens most often if the blood supply to the bowel is affected)
- Age (most cats affected are either middle-aged or senior/geriatric
- Prostate enlargement (related to being unaltered)
- Hormone imbalances (disease may affect the cat’s hormone levels)
- Anatomic issues
- Straining to defecate due to disease in this part of the cat’s body
- Straining to urinate because of prostate enlargement
- Damaged nerves in the cat’s pelvic diaphragm
- Testicular disease in male cats
- Disease of the prostate (tumors, abscesses or cysts)
- Increased abdominal pressure resulting from pregnancy
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